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Thirty years ago, the interned Japanese-most of them U.S.-born or relatively assimilated-tried to turn Tule Lake into an American small town. Boy Scout troops and English classes sprang up, as well as softball and basketball leagues. Christian and Buddhist churches were formed and young people danced the jitterbug and the foxtrot under the eyes of watchful parents...
...performance. There were few policy differences between the two Democrats, although Glenn is basically more conservative than Metzenbaum. The only major contrast was between Metzenbaum, the experienced politician, and Glenn, who had never before been elected to office. But Glenn steadily chipped away with one strong chisel-his Boy Scout image. The result was a decisive victory for Glenn, a plurality of 94,000 out of more than 1,000,000 votes cast...
...named executive assistant to the agency's deputy director, Admiral Rufus Taylor. If he seemed to be something of a Boy Scout to his colleagues, it was appropriate that Scouts first caused him to have misgivings about his employment...
Dennis Cuccia, administrative assistant and the scout for the Tigercats, said yesterday the whole affair was the result of a misunderstanding by Stoeckel. "We talked with Jim and said he could forego signing until after the baseball season," Cuccia said. "Jim said he'd check it [his eligibility] with the athletic department and later called us to say it was okay to announce the signing...
Their immediate appetites receive detailed and very explicit satisfaction for a couple of hundred pages. Then Sharon, who beneath that pneumatic exterior turns out to be as resourceful as a Girl Scout, engineers the bloody downfall of her gruesome band of lovers...